Sparks fly in the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind Inherit the Wind, (Lomitas Productions, Inc.1960) when evolution confronts creationism in an explosive battle of polar-opposite views about the origins of life. But neither the film nor the 1925 real-life court case it's based on—in which high-school science teacher John T. Scopes is accused of the crime of teaching evolution—can compare to the sparks that fly in Mary Baker Eddy's chapter "Genesis" in Science and Health.
Mary Baker Eddy had the analytical insight to probe both evolution and creationism.
Remarkably, this 19th-century woman, with no formal degrees or standing in the world of natural science, had the audacity and capacity to take on both evolution and creationism. Through analytical insight and inspired, no-nonsense logic, she showed them to be more alike than different—both theories rest on a faulty (and inelegant) premise, namely, that life is material.
